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Yeah, we had snappers all over in michigan. I saw some as big as semi tires. Did not want to mess with those.

We get them around Detroit, even, in the burbs near rivers. I think the ones in the Rouge River have got to be mutants by now, at least the ones who live downriver of the Ford plant, or near all the refineries by Zug Island.

We get them around Detroit, even, in the burbs near rivers. I think the ones in the Rouge River have got to be mutants by now, at least the ones who live downriver of the Ford plant, or near all the refineries by Zug Island.

That got me to thinking about just how old the species might be. They go back to the Miocene era, which was about 23 million years ago. That puts them in the same category, I think, as alligators and roaches. If Ford and the refineries managed to mutate the snapping turtle, they have got some powerful stuff!:)